that a fight would settle nothing whatever. The issue stands by itself and has no. precedents. There is always a tactical arguinent for a strike when the workers think that they...

A LTHOUGH the Coal negotiations are almost at a deadlock when we write these words the situation is probably better than it seems. The miners have not • rejected the Report and...

in not placing before the miners' Executive a brief state- , ment explaining exactly what they suggested on the subject of wages. The Prime Minister had announced that an...

are not in any doubt as to what the results of rejecting the Report would be. The Industrial Committee of the Trade Union Congress, which is in constant touch with the miners'-...

owners' statement. They are evidently not opposed to the general scheme of reconstruction recommended by the Commission, but they condemn the proposal to compensate the present...

London, W.C. 2. — A Subscription to the "Spectator" costa Thirty ,Shillings per annum, including postage, to any part of the world. 'Registered as a Newspaper. The Postage on...

have tried to open up district negotiations as distinct from national negotia- tions they have been departing from their own undertak- ing sincerely to try to bring the...

entered Peking. The chief event within Peking has been the deposition of the Chief Executive, Tuan Chi-jui. This measure, the Peking correspondent of the Times suggests, was...

by himself and several other distinguished bishops, clergy and Nonconformists protesting against the proposal to tax betting. " There is every reason to anticipate," says the...

between the owners and the miners, at the end of which it was announced that no progress had been made. The two sides separated without arranging to meet again. There has been a...

any means certain. The principal conditions required by France and Spain are that Abd-el-Krim should withdraw from the Riff and should formally submit himself to the Sultan of...

movement for adopting Latin characters in_ the writing of Turkish is gaining strength so fast that the reform will probably be introduced fairly soon. Already Latin characters...

, discuss the French debt. We hope that his illness, which we regret, will not prevent him from doing so. Englishmen were greatly surprised when he announced recently that...

holiday-makers has' caused the usual crop of suggestions for improve- ment. Instruction in the elementary schools still seems to us to be the best cure, but this would take...

his name remains. Every sensible person earnestly desires that the medical profession should preserve its very high standards and should protect the public from fraud....

Dr. Axham on Thurs- day, April 8th. His life ended tragically under the shadow of a professional disgrace which should have been lifted from him by the General Medical Council....

under control a, change in the law would be necessary. The prospect would be formidable. The greater. part of a session would probably be occupied in the debates. The best way...

Roscoe' Lecture at the Royal Institution, Liverpool, and expressed his belief that the Press is more powerful than it has ever been ; that ability in public life, both for...

on December 3rd, 1925. . War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 101 § ; on Wednesday week 102 ; a year ago 102*. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86 ; on Wednesday...

D. Simon the noble gift of Wythenshawe Hall together with 250 acres of land to be used as a public park. The donors say that this act of generosity and civic patriotism is "...

made a misstatement and also tried to encourage a public nuisance were it not that he was compelled to define egotism in such a way as . to deprive it of its ordinary meaning....

FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] T HE policy of - Italianizing the Austro - Germans iri South Tyrol - is being carried out with an iron hand. There is nothing to prevent SignorMussolini...

A MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND THE TRUE WAY OF ECONOMY O NE of the most notable of recent Parliamentary movements is the growth of the demand for a Ministry of Defence. This is due...

T HOUGH Angora is only some 300 miles from Haidar . Pasha station, . the German constructed terminus of the Bagdad railway, the train journey from one town to the other takes ,...

I HAVE no particular cause to JoveAmericans. When I first set up for myself in: business,' in a little office at the corner of Forty-second Street and Broadway, they parted me...

I N Ancient Egypt there was the plague . of darkness which could be felt. In Modern England there is the plague of darkness which can he smelt, in our cities of dreadful day. In...

I HAVE come away from the Exhibition arranged' by the Optical Convention at South Kensington (which closes to-day, Saturday . ) feeling that my eyes and the region behind them...

F NGLISH interest in cricket does not even yet seem to - have reached its meridian, in "spite of subtraction' by lesser games played with balls that do not hurt. The coming...

By Loan OLIVEER. O UR starlings' army is quite orthodox in its organization. Its units are progressively the platoon, the company, the battalion, the regiment, the division,...

A CORRESPONDENT in Malta draws my attention to ars article which appeared in a recent issue of It Legionaries of Rome, the official Fascist organ, on the " Italianity of Malta."...

in offering what amounts to a premium on marriage to certain employees. An examination was held in December to fill a hundred vacancies in the Irish Civil Service, and men...

matters the Italian Colonial Institute, with the support of the National Association of Tourist Industries, and under the patronage of the Idea Coloniale, has organized a cruise...

Chamber the proposal to forbid the sale of babies' comforters was carried by a majority of 870 to 153. The law will not come into effect for three months, so as to give...

the Press, and the " new industrial gospel " of high wages and payment by results is making many con- verts. In these articles I have not noticed any reference to one important...

invited to inform the many thousands of readers of the SPECTATOR, by advertising in the Small Classified advertisement columns. Details of the cost--which es very low—will be...

the British Empire. It is good news, therefore, that a West Indian Conference is to be held in London in May, when Mr. Amery will open the first meeting. All the British West...

of a leading Canadian industrialist that Canada is handicapped in Great Britain by the lack of titled Cana- dians. There is practical unanimity in Canada concerning the granting...

MR. MALLESON ARRIVES [" CONFLICT," BY MILES MALLESON. QUEEN'S THEATRE.] TOWARDS the end of last year, this fine play, this remorseless piece of clear-headed thinking, was...

[" RIVERSIDE NIGHTS," BY A. P. HERBERT AND NIGEL PLAYFAIR. LYRIC, HAmmeasurrn.] FOR months past the town has buzzed with gossip about the entertainment—some called it vaguely a...

Patrick's Day, and according to the Irish papers nobody seemed to enjoy the holiday any the less. Certainly a Government which can achieve sobriety on Ireland's national...

A LETTER FROM PEKING [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—We are within four days of China New Year, and the streets are crowded with sellers of kites, Chinese lanterns,...

at Stratford-on-Avon opened on Monday night and will continue until Saturday evening, May 15th. Owing to the destruction by fire-of the - Memorial Theatre, the plays are being...

THE ELECTRICITY BILL [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,--May I as -a power user be permitted to offer. some comments on your attitude to- the Electricity Bill ? There...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Before the War we intended to send our two children to Public Schools as we were comfortably off, and felt it would not be just to take...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Government Smoke Abatement Bill, which passed its second reading in the House of Lords on March 23rd, would be more appropriately...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The Rev. Herbert W. Quarrie says that our helping France in the War " meant the difference between survival and extinction to her." But...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Would it not be in the interest of economy to bring to the attention of the town and rural county councillors the possibilities of saving...

Sfa,—The small percentage of English people who are able to visit the United States for the most part return enthusiastic for Anglo-American amity and co-operation. And why...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have just read the article in the current number of the Spectator, entitled " The Industrial Christian Fellowship: , The writer seems...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My brother-in-law in Devonshire has a raven, brought up from a nestling, and now some years old. It flies about loose in the garden. The...

ADAM AND EVE EVE : What should we do, love, if the sun should fail, (There have been times when he grew wan and pale) If he his daily task should not complete, Nor give his...

Sre,—Writing for the Spectator of all papers, correspondents should be sure of their facts, and rose growers cannot con- gratulate Mr. Geoffrey Dearmer on his statement in the...

SPECTATOR.] Sur,—Mr. R. M. Bradley says in his useful letter that if emigrants are drawn gradually from an area of congestion the power of multiplication which has created...

SIR, —I write as Chairman of the City of London Hospital: for Diseases of the Heart and Lungs (" Victoria Park Hos- pital " to use its more familiar title) to say that I shall...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—S0 many of your readers are interested in the records of the " Incomparable Twenty-Ninth " that I shall be grateful if you will allow me...

TO Ole 5p ctator No. 5103.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1926. [GB ATI5-1.

(Overheard by IV olfrtnn von Eschenbach as Tannhd user issues from the Venus-Berg.) Rend thy harp, Tanahauser,— Arc and strings ! Too long bast thou lain in the berg 'Neath...

Tim crash of a car in the night At the foot of the Hangman's Hill— And he, whose heart was alight With a fury of speed, lies still. His youth, with frenzy afire To overtake...

The Fugger News-Letters. Second Series. (John Lane. 18s.) Tim . - second series - of The .lougger News--Letters, admirably translated - by Mr. L. S. 'R. Byrne is of exceptional...

NOT by our dull abstracted eyes Is the first violet seen ; It is the children who surprise The purple in the green. Yet time has been when to our sight A crocus in the snow,...

Strange Sights On the Diamond Trail in British Guiana. By Gwen Richard- son. Illustrated. (Methuen. 75. tid.) HERE is a perfectly incongruous handful of books ; yet all deal...

ENG , L ISH horses and horsemastershipbave long been the admira t tion of all countries. But apart from racing, which- is a distiriet sahleet, neither Europe nor America...

ENLIVENED with Such tit-bits of information as that the .mongoose will - nibble off the ears of babies left sleeping" by their motheis in the fields, and that in Greenland,...

Athletics. By Harold H. Abrahams. (Harrap. 2s. 6d.) ATHLETICS, in the special sense of the word, may be a very good game. It may call out the same qualities as cricket or...

Squire Osbaideston : his Autobiography. Edited, wit-11 Com- mentary, by E. D. Oaming. Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook. (Lane. t2 2s. net. ) ON -October 10th, 1862, George...

litillett Parry. By Charles Graves. (Macmillan. 2 vols. 30s. net.) Iz is hardly for me, a newcomer to these pages, to tell the older generation of Spectator readers that Mr....

THE evening had reached its best moment : dinner just over, the aroma of good coffee in the air, and nothing to do but talk out the night in the firelight, with -the lively...

who loves the noble Burns devotedly. It gathers up with great care all contemporary evidence—letters, tradition, medical reports, &c.—which tends to prove that Burns was not the...

TuE dictionaries define a " showman " as one who exhibits or owns a show, but do not tell us that it also means a man who shows what he can himself do, a sense in which the term...

MR. AUSTIN HARRISON'S book about his father is really a criticism of the Victorian Age, and very interesting it =is, possibly more interesting than if it had been all about...

The Foundations of the Science of War. By Col. J. F. C. Fuller, D.S.O. (Hutchinson. 218.) THOSE who visited Army Headquarters in France during the Wir found the military spirit...

Memories and - Hopes. By. Edward Lyttelton. (John Murra y. 12s. &I.) - MEMORIES: and hopes are apt in real life to be somewhat disjointed though often enough poignant and...

The Cause of War The International Anarchy, 1904 to 1914. By G. Lowes Dickin. son. (George Allen and Unwin. 17S. 6d.) TITS immediate antecedents of the Great War will continue...

Financial Reconstruction in England, 1815.4822. By A. W. AcwOrth. (P. S. King & Son. 8e. 6d. net.) READER% of the Times have been reminded lately by the ex- tracts quoted from...

Before going on their holidays readers are advised to place an „order for the Si9scrierog. The journal will be forwarded to any address `est the following rates One Month .....

By EDWARD ANTON. ,rIARLYLE, in the opening book of his " French ••••• Revolution," takes occasion to remark :- " To Newton and to Newton's Dog Diamond, what a different pair of...

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THE FIRST OF THE MODERNS [Corearearr IN THE U.S.A. BY THE New York Times.] " I study myself more than any other subject ; this is my metaphysic, this is my physic."—MONTAIGNE....

1925-1926. The Platonic Tradition in English Religious Thought (Longmans, 46.) is a plea for the philosophy of mysticism. " The need of the age is to restore the idea of what...

Ma. T. E. LAWRENCE is a born writer. It has been wrongly said that he was made a Prince of Mecca, but we would not deny him a place close to the purple in English prose. In an...

associations of the world have been published in two volumes under the editorship. of Mr. G. A. Pringle: (World Education, 2 vols, 10s. 6d., from 47 Moray Place, - Edinburgh.)...

is the best fun in the world," says Dr.. Grenfell, of Labrador fame, in a booklet (Religion in Everyday Life. American Library Association, Chicago) which is designed' to point...

write a life of Abraham Lincoln (Cape, 2 vols. £2 2s.) during the Eman- cipator's prairie years, for he is of the prairies himself and something of an emancipator also, as all...

An amazing account of how, at the age of fifty-two, Tolstoy was almost overcome by the charms of his scullery-maid, and saved himself from temptation by insisting that a yonng...

IL Davies' delightful Bird of Paradise, containing some of his most distinctive work.

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The Editor offers a prize of £5 for a " Specimen Day " in not more than 1,000 words. If only four hundred words are used we shall be so much the happier. But we have set the...

Religious Experience : Its Nature and Truth. By Kenneth - . Edward, MA., D.Phil. (T. and T. Clark. Ss.) Essays in Ethics and Religion. By James Seth, MA., LL.D. FOUR...

the East India Company trading to China, 1635 - 1834. By Hosea Ballou Morse, LL.D. (Clarendon _ Press. 4 Vols. 788. net.) • *PR. MORSE is to be heartily congratulated upon his...

Casements. Fifty Poems by fifty French Poets (1820-1920). Selected and translated by Richard Cloudealey Savage. (Dent. Wrrt[ what foreboding does the critic pick up a book of...

surprise me oftenest in human infer..- course," - Mr. Benson tells us, -" are the difficulty which some -people experience in giving themselves away, and secondly : the fact how...

is the eternal tragedy of the Indian zamindur, Striving to keep up appearances in his village; he lived beyond his means, and fell incontinently into the toils of a villainous...

IN DARKEST LONDON. By Mrs. Cecil Chesterton. (Stanley Paul, 5s. net.) MRS. eHESTERTON is a crusader of high and militant courage Who detefinined 'to:. investigate at first hand...

The Military Side of Japanese Life. By M. D. Kennedy. (Constable. 21s. net.) .Glimpses of Japan and Formosa. By H. A. Franck. (T. Fisher Unwin. 10s. net.) Fuji from Hampstead...

6d.) THE title describes this useful pamphlet for prospective house owners. As the author truly says, there still exist people who do not own their own houses because " they do...

Boon. 2s. 6d.) MR. Fusox Yormo has made a good little book about his last summer's experiments with two British light cars (a 4-cylinder and a 6-cylinder) on 5,000 miles of...

The Year Book of the Universities of the Empire (Bell, 7s. 6d.) is full of useful information and makes interesting reading for all who share our belief in the future , of the...

contains a vast amount of political and industrial information, not about Socialism only. There is an interesting section on the profits made by various joint stock companies, a...

A. Bateman, Ltd. (2s. 6d. net.) Tins little book is one of the most useful of the many mono- graphs recently published with the object of helping those who wish to buy or build...

Press. 16s. net.) Ma. GARDNER'S book is the second edition of a work which has already been welcomed as one of the best introductions to Gothic architecture. Mr. Short's...

for 1926 (Spottiswoode, Ballantyne, 60s.) we have lauded this admirable work, and we believe that each succeeding issue is better than the last. Most people who use the book...

PRE-TCHEKHOV Signs and Wonders. By Ellen Thomeycroft Fowler. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) In Mr. Donn Byrne's Ireland one longs for rain. It is an Ireland of perfervid and...

Peter Intervenes. By Edgar Jepson. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d.)-A boy of twelve protects pleasant thieves and baffles crooks in this book. There is really very little to choose in...

as. 6d.)-There is a film of this slight adventure story of California in the '60's. As with most tales of the kind, it contains some excellent tough characters and sharp....

all very well for Miss Hurst to seek to disarm the reader by a title. Her story of a hysterical girl swinging between an unhealthy attitude to religion and an unbalanced...

but rather tonelessly written story of life at a provincial University and an academic hero incon- veniently and rather piquantly attracted by two ladies.

the - passing of the. days of the rural Squirearchy begins with a charming descrip- tion of the opening of the " Tarlington " Branch of the Great Western Railway in 1841. These...

FILMS. • MADAME Sews GENE.-Gloria Swanson much more Gloria than the usual conception of the famous laundress. INTRODUCE ME (Stoll, Kingsway).-Most amusing : fun in the Alps. _...

LITERATI-IRE :-The Bird of Paradise. By W. H. Davies. (Jonathan Cape. 3s. 6d.) Short Talks with the Dead and Others. By Hilaire Belloc. (Cayme Press. 7s. 6d.) -The Dance over...

ON 'BUYING A - CAR TuE purchase of a motor-car is an important episode in most people's lives, not only because 'a -considerable sum of money is involved, which may have taken...

IF, with the passing of the present month, we should succeed in solving the problem of the coal dispute, and should also witness the production of a reasonably satisfactoiy...

Whatever may be the depression in some of our key industries, it is clear that many of the big London Stores are , able to show a position of considerable prosperity. This is...

Although the somewhat unexpected heavy decline during recent months in the price of rubber has effectually checked the boom in shares of rubber producing companies, it cannot be...

Both shareholders and policy-holders of the Canada Life Assurance Company must be congratulated upon the good results achieved for 1925, the figures constituting, I believe, a...

attitude adopted by.dealers for some few months past. This is particularly true as regards any eventualities connected with the coal situation. From the outset the disposition...

Although the annual Report of Lever Brothers confirmed expectations of a suspension of dividend on the Ordinary Shares, it revealed in some other respects a better financial...

PANAMA. GOLD. The public loves a gamble, and that fact in itself probably explains the fact that the £500,000 in Ordinary Shares of the Panama Exploration Company, offered at...

Bank of India the Chairman was able to place before the meeting a thoroughly satisfactory balance-sheet, and was also able to confirm what had been said by some previous...

A currency conundrum propounded by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in the course of a recent after-dinner speech to the British Overseas Bankers Association may perhaps...